About The Word Fearful
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Fearful
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What's The Definition Of Fearful?
[adj] experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
[adj] causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [adj] timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog" [adj] lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley [adj] extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fearful: afraid(p) | alarming | awful | bad | caitiff | chicken | chickenhearted | coward(a) | cowardly | cowering(a) | craven | cringing(a) | dastard(a) | dastardly | dire | direful | dread(a) | dreaded | dreadful | faint | fainthearted | fearsome | frightening | frightful | funky | horrendous | horrific | lily-livered | poltroon | poor-spirited | pusillanimous | recreant | terrible | timid | timorous | trepid | unmanly | white-livered | yellow | yellow-bellied Related Terms | Find terms related to Fearful: aflutter | afraid | aghast | agitated | alarmed | alarming | all nerves | all-overish | anxious | anxioused up | appalling | apprehensive | atrocious | awful | awing | baleful | bashful | bothered | chicken | chickenhearted | chilling | concerned | coward | cowardly | cowed | daunted | daunting | deadly | deterrent | deterring | diffident | dire | direful | discomposed | disconcerting | discouraging | disgusting | disheartening | dismayed | dismaying | disquieted | disquieting | disturbed | dreadful | edgy | excitable | fainthearted | fearing | fear-inspiring | fearsome | foreboding | formidable | frightened | frightening | frightful | funking | funky | ghastly | goosy | grim | grisly | gruesome | heinous | henhearted | hesitant | hideous | high-strung | horrendous | horrible | horrific | horrifying | howling | in a pucker | in a stew | in fear | intimidated | irritable | jittery | jumpy | lily-livered | loathsome | lurid | macabre | malign | milk-livered | milksoppish | milksoppy | misgiving | monstrous | mousy | nauseating | nauseous | nerves on edge | nervous | nervy | on edge | on tenterhooks | overanxious | overapprehensive | overawing | overstrung | overtimid | overtimorous | overwhelming | panicky | panic-prone | panic-stricken | perturbed | pigeonhearted | pusillanimous | rabbity | redoubtable | repugnant | repulsive | revolting | rousing | scared | scaring | scary | shaky | shivery | shocking | shrinking | shy | sinister | sissified | sissy | skittery | skittish | soft | solicitous | startling | startlish | strained | sublime | suspenseful | tense | terrible | terrific | terrified | terrifying | terror-stricken | thumping | timid | timorous | trembling | tremendous | tremulous | trepidant | trigger-happy | troubled | uneasy | unmanly | unmanned | unspeakable | unwilling | weak | weakhearted | weak-kneed | whacking | white-livered | yellow | zealous See Also | ignoble Fearful In Webster's Dictionary \Fear"ful\, a.
1. Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat
all their power. --Bp.
Warburton.
2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage;
timid.
What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted?
--Deut. xx. 8.
3. Indicating, or caused by, fear.
Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
--Shak.
4. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror;
terrible; frightful; dreadful.
This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God.
--Deut.
xxviii. 58.
Death is a fearful thing. --Shak.
In dreams they fearful precipices tread. --Dryden.
Syn: Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; horrible;
distressing; shocking; frightful; dreadful; awful.
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